Morning journal and courier., 1887-05-17
LOCAL NEWS.
RrIef Mention.

BTIeI M0nG1Ons
 Ink, mucilage and pens at Dorman's.
 Wait for Barnum's greatest show on eartl in this city June 11th.
 Rev. G. E. Nichols, of Southington, ha moved his family to West Haven.
 The brewery hands in this city struck an, got an increase of wages Saturday
 The President yesterday appointed Am prose Beatty postmaster at New Britain
 An attempt was made to float the schoone General s. E. Merwin at Providence las night.
 An unknown man forty years old wa killed at the Hartford depot yesterday by th cars.
 Hon. George H. Watrous reports his healtl decidedly benefited by his trip to the Der r11udas.
 Charles Neff, of Portland, recently shot 6 rattlesnake that was about four feet long and had twelve rattles.
 large delegation of Wopowaug tribe of Red Men, Ansonia, will visit Hammonassett tribe here tonight.
 Rev. Dr. Dryden s. Phelps presided at the Hartford county Baptist ministers meeting in Hartford yesterday.
 The Baptists of Pittsfeld, Mass, held g meeting last evening to extend call to the Rev. MT. Samson, of this city.
 Wethersfeld farmers are complaining bit terly of the ravages done by English spar, rows on their fields of young peas.
 Captain J. E. Stannard, of Westbrook, caught on Monday, 9th, seventy-six shad, Tuesday 108 and Wednesday ninety.
 Mrs. Thomas M. Waller and family arrived in New York by steamer Brittanic on Friday and are at their home in New London.
 Summer school of shorthand writing at Gaffey's, 49 Church street; term commences June 1st. Open day and evening all sum- mer.
 Officer McAvoy recovered yesterday on Prout street the silverware stolen from Ma than 0. Myers of St. John street on Sunday night.
 Peter McGuire, secretary of the National Carpenters union, addressed the striking carpenters and others at private meeting at Turn Hall last night
 A few New Haveners who were in the Twenty-frst regiment, c. ", during the war went to Willimantic yesterday to attend the reunion of the veterans of that regiment.
 Mrs. Franklin Farrel of Ansonia, who was travelling in the South, arrives home to-day to attend the funeral of her father, the late Wilson H. Clark who died suddenly last Saturday.
 A heavily y-loaded coal barge grounded at high tide yesterday just inside the Chapel street drawbridge and the draw had to be closed for the day, much to the disgust of the travelling public.
 Fire broke out in the Methodist church at Darien Saturday night about 11:15 and the structure was totally destroyed, together with the parsonage. Cause of the fire un- known. Loss about $3,0O0.
 The Connecticut Homeopathic society's annual meeting takes place today at the New Haven House, opening at 10 a. m. In- teresting and valuable papers will be read and discussed and officers elected.
 Bridgeport papers consider that the honor of making the trip to Philadelphia next Sep tember for participation in the centennial of the United States constitution will fall either to the Second or the Fourth regiment.
 Mr. Gardner Morse reads paper before the New Haven Colony Historical society one week from next Monday night on changes in New Haven real estate in former days. It will, no doubt, be highly interest ing.
 The county commissioners yesterday morn ing heard the application of M. J. Killbride to sell liquor at the corner of Dewitt and Washington streets. He was refused a license. Several others have been refused licenses for the building.
 The apple blossoms encourage the sturdy fishermen to seek the reefs where the wary and energetic blackfish abound. They take plenty of long clans and fddlers along for bait and frequently come back sunburned and with hands blistered, but exalting over their luck, the slain blackish being many
 The late Henry s. Sawyer of Derby, whose funeral takes place to-day, leves several chill dren, one of whom, 8 daughter, married the Rev. Mir. Whitcomb, who within a short period has opened a law office in New Ha. ven. Deceased was very popular man in Derby and leaves a fortune estimated at $25O, O,OO0
 MT. William s. Barnes, one of the original members of the St. John street M. E. church, celebrated his seventy-sixth birthday anni- versary recently at the home of his daugh- ter, Mrs. Riley T. Smith, Oyster Point. A fine easy chair was presented to the old gen. tleman by his loving children. Mir. Barnes learned the joiner's trade in the same shop with ex-Governor English.